Published : 18-09-2021
AGPS participated in a training workshop about the Human Rights Based Approach (HRBA) in advocacy and project management held by the office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).
The three-day workshop, held between September 14-16, tackled human rights activism by CSOs and the issue of enforced disappearance.
The workshop underscored the definition and principles of HRBA along with the challenges, advocacy mechanisms, mapping, and cooperation. It further highlighted the importance of the people-centric approach.
The Human Rights Based Approach (HRBA) to programming is a methodology that has been used for over a decade to integrate human rights principles and standards in civil society programmes around the world. The approach has been applied in development contexts that often assume a stable political environment, a large and protected civic space, and the possibility for civil society actors to engage with duty bearers at the level of government institutions. The people centric approach applies aspects of HRBA to a context where this baseline may not be available. It does so in three ways: First, it identifies strategic openings for human rights advocacy and technical assistance. Second, it takes economic, political and cultural complexities into account when analysing and addressing human rights challenges. And last, it ensures that a practical and gradual change in the enjoyment of human rights at the level of inpiduals is achieved.
The people-centric approach is a methodology that emphasises the need to place the needs and expectations of rights holders at the centre of advocacy and project management. This approach is especially relevant to Syria where years of active hostilities have left millions of people deprived of their civil and political as well as economic, social and cultural rights. By bringing people and their rights into focus, CSOs ensure that their interventions do not just serve to acknowledge suffering or offer temporary relief to survivors, but instead address the root causes of these violations to ensure they do not happen again.
AGPS participated in a training workshop about the Human Rights Based Approach (HRBA) in advocacy and project management held by the office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).
The three-day workshop, held between September 14-16, tackled human rights activism by CSOs and the issue of enforced disappearance.
The workshop underscored the definition and principles of HRBA along with the challenges, advocacy mechanisms, mapping, and cooperation. It further highlighted the importance of the people-centric approach.
The Human Rights Based Approach (HRBA) to programming is a methodology that has been used for over a decade to integrate human rights principles and standards in civil society programmes around the world. The approach has been applied in development contexts that often assume a stable political environment, a large and protected civic space, and the possibility for civil society actors to engage with duty bearers at the level of government institutions. The people centric approach applies aspects of HRBA to a context where this baseline may not be available. It does so in three ways: First, it identifies strategic openings for human rights advocacy and technical assistance. Second, it takes economic, political and cultural complexities into account when analysing and addressing human rights challenges. And last, it ensures that a practical and gradual change in the enjoyment of human rights at the level of inpiduals is achieved.
The people-centric approach is a methodology that emphasises the need to place the needs and expectations of rights holders at the centre of advocacy and project management. This approach is especially relevant to Syria where years of active hostilities have left millions of people deprived of their civil and political as well as economic, social and cultural rights. By bringing people and their rights into focus, CSOs ensure that their interventions do not just serve to acknowledge suffering or offer temporary relief to survivors, but instead address the root causes of these violations to ensure they do not happen again.
